Most of you have heard of this by now... Dell's XPS Gaming machine with 4 7800GTX's, totalling 2GB of super fast GDDR3.

It's been described as 'putting lipstick on a pig', because of the Intel processor. I can't believe that Dell, even after shoving these 4 monsters in their system, decided to create the ULTIMATE BOTTLENECK by keeping a Pentium processor in there! You'd have thought this would be their AMD debut, but nope.

Take a look at [url=http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28865]this article[/url] for the lo-down.

The pain, THE PAIN! How dare they strap an Intel processor to all that godly graphics power! And let Dell do it of all people! Arghhhhh!

What has gotten into nVidia! They've always loved AMD, and quite rightly so! They've been making the awesome nForce chipset for AMD processors for years now, yet they only just released on for Intel because Intel didn't have SLI and nVidia wanted a bit more market.

If I was nVidia I would have gone with AMD and one of hte high profile high end retailers, such as Voodoo.

Oh, and I like the quote;
[quote:f16a927708="some guy"]Unavailable parts have been ATI's high-end product for over a year now.[/quote:f16a927708]hehe

Lame.

Besides, the most unavailable product of 2005 has got to be the 512MB 7800GTX. ATI didn't confirm a release date until the countdown appeared on their website. Sure, they weren't on time, but they weren't released, so were therefore not commercially unavailable. Nvidia nuts don't think like that.

And as soon as that countdown hit 0, X1000 series cards have been consistently available.

There was a problem with the X800XT card (I think it was that one), the memory wasn't readily available, so very few people could buy one.

So... back on topic :P

Besides, the X800 was never as unavailable as the 7800GTX 512 has become.

Heh, yeah. Why oh why dd they choose Dell! They couldn't make a gaming rig if something that tells them how to make one came and bit them in the face!

It's even made the front page on the Nvidia site.

Should we move this thread to the 'Lame' section instead of the 'Extreme' section, LOL!

that would have been a good idea if we had one! lol

Anyway, like the Inquirer says - by the time this system is available, the next Nvidia card will be available in SLI with an AMD CPU, so what's the point? Michael Dell might have a bit of business sense, but when it comes to the technical stuff it all goes pear shaped.

Yeah. Never mind quad 7800s, I want eight 8800s! THE POWER!

the hardware aceloration sys hasnt changed since the 6 serise so at the mo they bring no advantage except speed which as yet dosnt matter

Trust me, it does. Many games can thrash even the 7800GTX 512 to it's limits.

but only because it can cause with a 6600 u can gain the same performance on the base graphics the the cpu normaly dose as that card

If you're sayingthe CPU limits it, you're probably right, and definitely right in the case the topic of this thread.

However, you will see quite large differences between each card/series.

in my opineon there is no reason to upgrade from a 6 serise card till there is a serise that has new hardware suport sys is new or improved and in the case of this perticular sys they cirtainly mite as well be useing the 6600

Yes, they is no real reason to upgrade, as the 6600GT can cope. But I'm power mad!

Even 6600s would be wasted in this system.

You're probably right. Even though Dell overclockeed this biatch to 4.26GHz *and* provide the (limited) users with a limited 1 year warranty, it's still going to be choked by that awful processor.

Quad SLI is very close, though.. we'll start seeing cards available to buy within the next couple of months!

I think therte will be boards available soon, swell. Meaning you can use AMDs and kick Dell in the proverbial...

Deep in their posterior!! I like it.
By the way I've just contacted a system builder who lives in my area, he can get hold of an OEM FX60, and 7900GTX's possibly at a very special price. I'll let you know!

Oooh... Me WANT!